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...those reasons, some rock-ribbed conservatives such as wealthy, 72-year-old Walter Dillingham oppose statehood. Said one of them: "In view of world uncertainties and the attempt at outside control of our local affairs, this is not the time for us to cut loose from federal control...
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Mount Cranmore in North Conway, the south-most major resort in this area, is the Plymouth rock of American skiing. Here, around Bans Snieder known as the founder of American skiing, known as the the greats of Austria and Switcherland to provide probably the best school in the United States...
...contrast to the South's convictions, Mid-Westerners consider all Harvard men rock-ribbed reactionaries. Tied in with this political conception is the belief that the average Cambridge Scholar is the epitome of the social snob. One student from Indian discovered he had not been invited to several parties at the state university simply because beer was to be the beverage of the day. Harvard men, the local boys felt, would quaff nothing but the more expensive and refined scotch...
Although the Mountaineering Club's rolls include a lengthy list of graduate members, most of the active climbers are still in the College. In preparation for their yearly altitude tests, the Club spends its summers polishing up rock climbing and rope techniques, and teaching the fundamentals to newcomers...